Financial Accountant (10938) at Macmillan Cancer Support

Job Description:

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Financial Accountant

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• Salary From:

  £50,000

• Salary To:

  £55,000

• Region:

  UK Wide

• Location:

  Dual London/Home

• Advertised Job Category:

  Finance and Operations

• Department:

  Finance & Procurement

• Job type:

  Permanent

• Closing Date:

  9 September 2025

Financial AccountantPermanent appointmentFull time (34.5 hours)Hybrid London office/Home (see what this looks like in the advert text) £50,000 - £55,000 per annum

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

About the role

We are currently seeking a Financial Accountant to provide technical support to the Accounting and Tax team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Financial lead for Macmillan's trading subsidiary
• Raffle and lottery accounting and financial compliance
• Ongoing monitoring of the monthly balance sheet reconciliation and bank accounts
• Supporting with the preparation of the Charity and group accounts
• Assisting in the production of the Annual Report and Accounts
• Support with the preparation of various external returns
• Being point of contact for all financial accounting issues; internal queries, external queries, including auditors, regulators and advisors
• Ensuring appropriate VAT reporting
• Production of auditable financial statements, other accounts and statistical returns
• Interpretation of technical accounting policies and applicable standards including charity specific requirements
• Delivery of year end and other ad hoc tasks to deadline

About you

We're looking for someone with the following skills and experience:

1. Accountancy Qualification - CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent
2. Strong technical accounting skills
3. Good awareness of charity accounting and compliance
4. An awareness of internal control requirements
5. A good knowledge of MS Excel, including pivot tables, look ups and formulae
6. Experience in liaising with non-financial staff and third parties

Hybrid expectations

This role requires a minimum of one day per week in our London office. During audit periods, London attendance is required more often, typically 2-3 times per week.

About our benefits 

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: Tuesday 9 September 2025 at 23:59.

1st interviews w/c 15 September 2025.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So that we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team ******@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments.

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice' and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people

If you would like to discuss your application or anything further in regards to a career at Macmillan Cancer Support please email us at ******@macmillan.org.uk.

Documents

• Interviewing at Macmillan (for candidates).pdf (203.96 KB)
• Benefits at Macmillan December 2023.pdf (386.61 KB)
• Role Profile - Financial Accountant.pdf (81.05 KB)

 

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Job Info:

• Company: Macmillan Cancer Support
• Position: Financial Accountant (10938)
• Work Location: London, Greater London
• Country: GB

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